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Dust (Silo, #3) QUOTES

Dust (Silo, #3) QUOTES

1 " Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

2 " The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

3 " Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

4 " ...Everything we do is left in...like a trail out there, a big ring of decisions. Every action we take-"
"And mistake."
"And every mistake. But every good thing we do as well. They are immortal, every single touch we leave behind. Even if nobody sees them or remembers them, that doesn't matter. That trail will always be what happened, what we did, every choice. The past lives on forever. There's no changing it. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

5 " That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

6 " Elise asked what nostalgic meant, and Jewel said, “It’s where you think the past was better than it really was, only because the present sucks so bad. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

7 " My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

8 " There was no going back. Apologies weren't welds; they were just an admission that something had been broken. Often between two people. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

9 " It doesn’t bother me that I won’t be around one day,” Lukas said after a while. “I don’t stress about the fact that I wasn’t here a hundred years ago. I think death will be a lot like that. A hundred years from now my life will be just like it was a hundred years ago. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

10 " Maybe the kinds of people who try to shape the world feel like they’re smarter than chaos itself. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

11 " And every mistake. But every good thing we do as well. They are immortal, every single touch we leave behind. Even if nobody sees them or remembers them, that doesn’t matter. That trail will always be what happened, what we did, every choice. The past lives on forever. There’s no changing it. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

12 " There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

13 " It was what to replace injustice with that very few gave thought to. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

14 " The world out there was the way it was no matter how much doubt or hope or hate a person breathed into it. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

15 " Our actions, you know? They last forever. Whatever we do, it’ll always be what we did. There’s no taking them back. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

16 " Gravity is a bitch until she's on your side. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

17 " No life had ever been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

18 " Where a story ends is nothing more than a snapshot in time, a brief flash of emotion, a pause. How and if it continues is up to us. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

19 " The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had ever been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)

20 " There were those who wanted to live right there, who were reticent to venture any further. "

― Hugh Howey , Dust (Silo, #3)